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... given to represent our forefathers in these old times as walking arm - in - arm , which is a comparatively modern custom . As here represented , when two persons of different sexes , or even if they were of the To same sex , walked ...
... given to represent our forefathers in these old times as walking arm - in - arm , which is a comparatively modern custom . As here represented , when two persons of different sexes , or even if they were of the To same sex , walked ...
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... given by the King , after having taken part in various enjoyments , the guests distribute themselves through the hall in couples ( a lady and a gen- tleman ) who take each other by the finger- Quant il orent assés deduit , Par la sale s ...
... given by the King , after having taken part in various enjoyments , the guests distribute themselves through the hall in couples ( a lady and a gen- tleman ) who take each other by the finger- Quant il orent assés deduit , Par la sale s ...
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... given above . When ladies walked together , they also usually held hands in this same manner . In the accompanying cut , taken from one of the illuminations of Queen Mary's Psalter , of the beginning of the fourteenth century , a party ...
... given above . When ladies walked together , they also usually held hands in this same manner . In the accompanying cut , taken from one of the illuminations of Queen Mary's Psalter , of the beginning of the fourteenth century , a party ...
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... command . We have already given examples of ladies riding , both sideways and astride , taken from Anglo - Saxon VOL . III.-NO. I. C manuscripts , but it is probable that in Western Europe. WOMANKIND IN THE FEUDAL CASTLE . 17.
... command . We have already given examples of ladies riding , both sideways and astride , taken from Anglo - Saxon VOL . III.-NO. I. C manuscripts , but it is probable that in Western Europe. WOMANKIND IN THE FEUDAL CASTLE . 17.
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... given in 1294 , forbade the use of chars to the wives of citizens . In the Roman de la Rose , the lady Venus is described as riding in a char drawn by six doves . On the reconciliation of Richard II . with the citizens of London , when ...
... given in 1294 , forbade the use of chars to the wives of citizens . In the Roman de la Rose , the lady Venus is described as riding in a char drawn by six doves . On the reconciliation of Richard II . with the citizens of London , when ...
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Página 427 - ... which cinders had been spread out only half a year before, Mr. Darwin actually saw the castings of the worms heaped on the smaller fragments. Nor is the agency so trivial as it at first might be thought, the great number of earth-worms (as every one must be aware who has ever dug in a grass field) making up for the insignificant quantity of work which each performs.
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Página 74 - cold area " were to be raised above the surface, so that the deposit at present in progress upon its bottom should become the subject of examination by some Geologist of the future, he would find this to consist of a barren Sandstone, including fragments of older rocks, the scanty Fauna of which would in great degree bear a Boreal character (§ 11); whilst if a portion of our "warm area" were elevated at the same time with the